13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

13 Blogs I’ve Learned From

Every now and then someone asks “How do you find this internet stuff?” I read some really informative blogs to learn from and I wanted to share them with you for your 2013 reading list. These blogs to learn from are guides to better understand social media, blogging or other website tidbits. Things change rapidly in this arena and you must keep up to stay abreast of the latest happenings.

13 Blogs to Learn From:

1. Basic Blog Tips – Ms. Ilene has done an outstanding job on her blog. She has many contributors that write for her now. There is always something fresh on her blog and she is accessible as well. One time I had a question and she replied via a short video. I was stunned. She did that for me? She is the queen of podcasts. Have you listened to one of her podcasts yet?

2. Sly Marketing – Jens keeps it interesting. He writes about marketing and writing. He has a unique style and writes from his experiences. Jens is a sole entrepreneur so he can surely understand the things you go through for your blog or website. He sometimes also writes personal pieces that will help you get to know and really like him.

3. Adrienne Smith - Adrienne has been an affiliate marketer and is a network marketer that doesn’t push her own stuff. She also teaches us something in a very personal and distinct way that you come to love her. She is the master of relationships. Once you get to know her, you’ll never stop reading her latest posts.

4. Mayura4Ever – Mayura is a technical genius who shares his tips and tricks on blogger style blogs. He sometimes shares other online tips for all of us – no matter what type of blog you may run. He is a phenomenal commenter as well.

5. Hot Blog Tips – This blog is run by Brian with the helps of Mitch and Cheryl on their “Google Hangouts” and videos. Always informative and debatable too. (I think they love debates) This is another not to miss blog. I was amazed to learn Brian has another full time job. I thought his blog was his full time job. Some people really amaze me.

6. I’m Just Sharing – This one is from Mitch, who you see on the Google hangings with Brian from Hot Blog Tips. Mitch has several businesses and blogs to learn from and he blogs about them as he shares his stories and tidbits.

7. Just Ask Kim – Kim really impressed me with one of her videos on Facebook recently. I hadn’t visited her often as the others but that video was so impressive and informative I had to share. I must visit her more in 2013. She really is an expert on Facebook.

8. Cirqued de Mot – Susan Silver is a master of SEO and copywriting and has some wonderful tips and tricks up her sleeve that she shares on her blog. She is a refreshing writer and you’ll be glad you visited her blog to learn something new.

9. SEOMoz – This blog is naturally all about SEO. It can be overwhelming at times and sometimes over my head but isn’t that how we learn? If we knew it all before reading what’s the point? They really have an outstanding group of people teaching SEO on their blog. The best of the SEO geeks.

10. ProBlogger – Darren Rowse has been blogging since 2002 and professionally (making money from blogging) since around 2004. He has guest bloggers on his blog to teach us a lot of stuff to be able to on the the right road to success online. Did you know he has a degree in degree in Theology?

11. Matt Cutts Blog- Matt is SEO, he is the master behind Google. He has been with Google since 2000 and is now the head of Google’s Webspam team. Who else better to learn from? After watching some of his video’s you will see he is quite personable too. Truly one of the best blogs to learn from on Google. Matt has a Ph.D. from Chapel Hill. (I wish my niece was there then, maybe we would have had Matt over for dinner).

12. HubSpot Blog- One of my first reading blogs to learn from on the internet as I began my online journey. You will always learn a little something there and the images they use will make you smile. They can be so darn creative.

13. Mashable – Probably the king of social media and internet news, another must read blog. They recently redesigned their blog if you haven’t been in a while, check it out. They update continuously with any breaking news related to the internet.

Have you been reading these informative blogs to learn from in 2012?

Coming Next: The Fun Blogs for 2013 and the Up and Coming Blogs for 2013

Lisa loves helping others to thrive online through Social Media, Blogging and SEO. What good is knowledge if you cannot share it with others? She has 20+ years experience in marketing/advertising with 4 years experience blogging, social media and SEO. Get her new eBook Tweeting Like It's 2nd Nature Today!

70 Responses to 13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

Hello Lisa
Great sound for Blogs ! I was wondering to know how to achieved Success for Website’s & finally I got this article to know Website’s Success. I have been Reader of “Just Ask Kim” I appreciate this blog of kim, She always share valuable article on her blog & I always connect with Kim’s Blog.Disha recently posted…The Sharing Syndrome: Social Media Going Big

I have already been visiting 6 of blogs here and I need to step into others too Few times I’ve visited blogs of Ilene, Kim and Jens as I see some posts circulated on the social networks, but I haven’t been a regular visitor there. Actually I wasn’t onto many blogs until lately, and now it’s time for me to stop by on more. I can always count on your recommendations as your interests quite similar to mine. Don’t you think? Look at the list you have just recommended…

You know, though how much we love Tech kinda content, still there are bloggers don’t care ‘em but love other aspects. Recently I’ve read another post with recommendations and they were all personal blogs. It’s really nice to find vivid aspects and it makes our readership more adventurous and broad too. It’s such a nice to be a blogger in first place

I feel glad as I’m in the right circle to find interesting blogs that matters to me It was always been wonderful to find really nice people too.

Thank you so much for including mine in your list with a nicey description dear Catch you on the blogs you have recommended.

Hi Mayura, yes, I think the interests are similar and you would enjoy them too. I tried to keep it simple with 13 but I’m sure I’ve missed some too. You are welcome as you always have something to teach over at your place Mayura and are helpful to all too.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

I’m among some awesome bloggers here as well. I do believe I know and visit a few of them as well so I definitely agree with you here. I hope that if some of your readers are looking for new blogs to visit and learn from that they’ll be sure to stop by all these blogs and just take a look at what they have to share. I have a feeling they’re going to end up loving them as much as you do.

Thank you so very much Lisa, again I’m so honored. Girl, you just made my day. Okay, my whole week!!! Yay!!!

I’m glad Adrienne as your blog has taught so many so much at least in the past year that I’ve been visiting it. You really have a way about you with your readers – really making them feel welcome. You also are not pushy with your “network” marketing. It is much appreciated!Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

awesome site, thanks for posting, although experience counts a lot in transposing what you see, having sites like these as inspiration is always a plus, keep em comingSantosh recently posted…Top Ten Sights to See in San Francisco

Hi Ileane and you are up early too You are welcome, you really are a wealth of knowledge! And your podcasts and video’s are just awesome. I think you were born to teach. Have a great day and a wonderful weekend.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

I couldn’t agree more with all the wonderful bloggers and their informative blogs you have mentioned here. Yes indeed, they have taught us a lot by sharing great content. Most of them I know and the few I don’t, I shall be heading right over and checking them out now.

You are welcome Harleena. I’m sure there are many more I could add like Ana Hoffman’s. I was keeping the 13 for the new year. I hope you enjoy the ones you haven’t visited yet. Thanks for coming by and commenting.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

Well I’d be overwhelmed with 13 of them! But maybe I’ll rotate them a day at a time giving my self a chance to see a different perspective once a day for about 2 weeks. I already subscribe to 3 of them so I’ll need to plan my approach out more.

I know quite a few of them but some of the others are new to me. I must get around to looking at the biggies like Mashable and Problogger. I tend to leave those alone as I’m so involved in everything else!

Have a great weekend and thanks for introducing me to a few new blogs.

You are welcome Tim. These were the tip of the iceberg, there are so many awesome ones out there to read but it’s hard to get to all of them all the time. Thanks for coming by and commenting, have a nice weekend too.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

That’s quite the list you have compiled there. I know some and the others I will visit in the near future. Bottom line is: “Keep reading – learning – and being inspired!”JanBierens recently posted…Google Communities – Do You Need to Start One?

Hi Jan, yes, that’s what it’s all about, keep learning! So much to learn every day. Stay tuned for the fun ones coming soon. Sometimes you need a break from all the learning, right? Have a wonderful weekend.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

Hi Lisa, Awesome list! I agree with your list, I really do. I know most of them and they have been incredibly helpful with my blogging journey. Jens, Adrienne, Kim and Mayura are fantastic. If you have a chance, check out Kim’s monthly webinars where she has a helpful Q&A session.

I also recommend Thomas from Techworks.dk. His tech knowledge is impressive and he is always helpful.

Thanks Carolyn for your input, I think I just started to read Thomas’s blog, another really good one. I’d love to do the webinar, I’ll have to check out the time to see if it’s something I can do. Thanks again for your input – love it!Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

Yeah Ileane, Jens, Adrianne, and Kim are blogs I usually read once or twice a week. You should add my blogsetupguide dot com site to the list when I get more and more content on there :). For SEO SEOmoz is really the only one I read. I have a pro account there and love it. Let me know if you ever need any backlink reports ran on your comp

Thanks Garen, I think I have just came across yours recently. I will be doing a up and coming list for 2013 Do you like the pro account there at SEOMoz? What does it do for you? Thanks for your comment and input.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

With a pro account it lets you set up five campaigns per account. These will track your rankings and crawl reports on your site every week. You have unlimited access to opensite explorer. Track your social accounts. See how hard it will be for your site to rank (for the keywords). So much more. There is a 30 day trial, so you can kind of poke around if you want and just cancel if you don’t want to pay $99 per month.

Thank you so much Lisa for including my blog. It’s an honor to be included in such great company. I haven’t read all the blogs you listed, but I am sure going to take a closer look at the ones I am not already reading.

Well deserved Jens, I really have learned some things from your marketing blog and it amazes me that you are a one-man show too I hope you will like the ones you haven’t read yet and that they too will be helpful. Have a great weekend.Lisa recently posted…13 Blogs To Learn From in 2013 for Your Website’s Success

The most important two things about this post is engagement and consistancy. Without the two there’s no drive to keep the blog going. Taking a step back it’s important to set the blogs objectives, goals & KPI’s so that it can be easier to assign your content target audience. Cameron recently posted…Rational study of cancer

Hi Cameron, you are correct those 2 things are extremely important. One would get bored if they did not have engagement and thus would probably not be consistent. Thanks for coming by and commenting, much appreciated.Lisa recently posted…13 Fun Blogs to Make You Smile, Laugh and Sometimes Cry

Great list Lisa. We use SEOmoz (as you said, primarily SEO) and HubSpot (Internet marketing) tools which are central to our Internet marketing agency. Mashable (All things Social) and Matt Cutts (Google Search) are great too. The 4 mentioned are super high quality blogs so I can only assume the other 9 resources are going to be my reward for reading you post.Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Rick. I’ve really been self taught since starting a retail site with Stores Online (almost 3 years now) and these websites really have helped me along the way. There is always something new to learn every day, sometimes hourly. I hope you find the other sites resourceful as well. I appreciate your commenting on this piece.Lisa recently posted…13 Fun Blogs to Make You Smile, Laugh and Sometimes Cry

Another great curated article, Lisa! Sorry, I realize I’m working my way backwards through your posts, only just spotted this one.

What a great list – I’m familiar with quite a few of them but there are some here I hadn’t come across and now look forward to exploring – many thanks for putting all these recommendations together – very helpful indeed,

Hi Lisa,
I’m glad I landed on your Blog. I always enjoy reading blogs that offer real value and your’s hits the mark. You added a personal friend of mine Adrienne Smith to your list of blogs to read, and your readers would do well to listen to what Adrienne has to say. Adrienne is one of the rare ones out there that loves to help people and the information she offers is of high vallue. Great post.

Thanks Bart, yes I really love Adrienne’s blog and she is real. She doesn’t try to push anything on you either when you visit her blog. You can tell she really enjoys people. Thanks for coming by Bart and welcome to Inspire to Thrive.Lisa recently posted…13 Fun Blogs to Make You Smile, Laugh and Sometimes Cry

I\’m already connected with few bloggers which is comes in 9 to 13 and visiting on daily basis. But honestly speaking I never heard of others. Thanks for sharing such a great list. I’ll follow others bloggers too for sure. Amol recently posted…Strategies To Increase Page Views On Your Blog

Hi Danny, yes, I felt so bad. It’s hard to pick out just 13! And her blog is awesome too. It’s amazing how many we can visit, isn’t it? Thanks for coming by and commenting Danny. Have a great weekend and holiday.Lisa recently posted…13 Up and Coming New Blogs To Read In The New Year

I know Allie it was not easy and I know I left some really good ones out. I just wanted to keep the theme to 13 in a series of 3 I did like this. Thanks Allie for your comment and input. I just updated to the new WordPress version so you lucked out that my plug-ins were all back together Felt like putting Humpty Dumpty together again.Lisa recently posted…13 Up and Coming New Blogs To Read In The New Year

Alright, I finally made a list, and I like the company I’m keeping! There’s 3 people on your list I don’t know; I’ll have to rectify that as well. Thanks for the inclusion Lisa; I’ll keep working on trying to be informative, entertaining, and humble… nah, I think I’m gonna lose on humble. Mitch Mitchell recently posted…5 Things About Writing That You Might Never Think Of

Fantastic list, Lisa! I already knew about and follow most of them. A couple of them I knew about, but never got around to following. This post changed all that. I’m following ALL now.

One of the things I’m doing this new year is I set up a separate account for all new blogs and websites I subscribe to. I set up the account to send a notification to me (via my awesome new iMac) with a bundle of reading each day. It’s so cool!Samantha recently posted…Thank You to Freelance Writing Dreams Readers &#8211; 2012 Rocked